Return-Path: <sentto-279987-4615-1018620075-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 [204.181.12.215] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.7.4) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Fri, 12 Apr 2002 07:07:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 10175 invoked by uid 510); 12 Apr 2002 14:04:39 -0000 Received: from n1.grp.scd.yahoo.com (66.218.66.64) by all.net with SMTP; 12 Apr 2002 14:04:39 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-4615-1018620075-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com Received: from [66.218.67.193] by n1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 12 Apr 2002 14:01:15 -0000 X-Sender: fc@red.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_3_1); 12 Apr 2002 14:01:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 15668 invoked from network); 12 Apr 2002 14:01:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m11.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 12 Apr 2002 14:01:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO red.all.net) (12.232.72.152) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 12 Apr 2002 14:01:13 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by red.all.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) id g3CE39D32242 for iwar@onelist.com; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 07:03:09 -0700 Message-Id: <200204121403.g3CE39D32242@red.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> X-Yahoo-Profile: fcallnet Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 07:03:09 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [iwar] [NewsBits] NewsBits - 04/11/02 (fwd) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit April 11, 2002 Scientists stole trade secrets from 4 companies besides Lucent. The three Chinese nationals accused of stealing trade secrets from Lucent Technologies also victimized four other companies, according to a new indictment returned Thursday. The three men, including two scientists who worked at Lucent's Murray Hill headquarters, now face 24 counts, including the original conspiracy charge, 14 counts of possessing trade secrets, and nine counts of wire fraud. http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/3045661.htm http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/356900p-2901291c.html Study: 10,000 people report they lost $18 million to Internet fraud Nearly 10,000 Americans reported losing $18 million in online scams last year, according to the Internet Fraud Complaint Center's annual report. The average loss for those scammed was $435. Almost half of the 16,775 fraud cases investigated by the center were people complaining they were duped in online auctions. Other scams included non-delivery of promised merchandise and credit card fraud. http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/3037673.htm http://www.msnbc.com/news/737233.asp http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/04/11/online.fraud.ap/index.html http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,51725,00.html http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/355858p-2897258c.html Monitoring reduces security risks Counterpane today released statistics to back its claim that customers of its monitoring services are far less likely to have their networks penetrated. In the first quarter of 2002, Counterpane monitored approx. 200 networks worldwide and processed 31 billion network events. The company's analysts investigated 57,000 separate security incidents, of which 55 per cent turned out to be false positives, 27 per cent were authorised customer activity, and 18 per cent were actual attacks. The attacks consisted of unauthorised scans, denial of service attacks, probes, attacks on a third party or attempts to otherwise compromise a network. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/24806.html Europe elbows Internet content 'blocking' The European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly to oppose the use of "blocking" as a way of regulating content on the Internet. The vote (460 in favour, 0 against and 3 abstentions) this morning means that ISPs will not be forced to restrict access to Web sites. Instead, they have been given the green light to continue with self-regulation. Today's decision has been welcomed by Louisa Gosling, President of the European Internet Services Providers Association (EuroISPA), as a "forward looking and informed decision". http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/24808.html RIAA Asks Congress For More Piracy Protection The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) this week urged a powerful House panel to focus more intently on combating digital music piracy. "Digital music piracy is the most serious problem affecting digital music and the music industry; and it has implications with regard to most of the other issues and proposals being considered," RIAA President Hillary Rosen wrote in a letter to the House Judiciary Committee. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175794.html KaZaa chaos doesn't stop the music http://www.msnbc.com/news/736467.asp Are Ads a Gateway to Illegal CDs? http://www.wired.com/news/mp3/0,1285,51719,00.html PC Maker Fights Lawmaker On CD Ripping/Burning PC maker Gateway is on the road in a campaign to flag down politicians who want copyright-protection technology legislated into digital media formats and devices such as television set-top boxes and computers. Gateway, already known for humorous marketing campaigns featuring chief executive Tedd Waitt and the company's Holstein-cattle-themed packaging, Wednesday began airing a TV commer- cial that showed a truck-driving Waitt and a bovine companion lip-synching to a hip-hop version of the Gordon Lightfoot tune "Sundown." http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175827.html http://www.vnunet.com/News/1130832 Army poised for Mannheim project The U.S. Army Signal Command and many defense agency partners soon will begin participating in the Mannheim project, an effort designed to help the Army develop an integrated computer network defense as part of its overall information technology transformation and consolidation. The project will begin next week as phased exercises that will incorporate the institutional and tactical Army, said Maj. Gen. James Hylton, commander of the Army Signal Command, speaking at an April 10 asymmetric warfare symposium sponsored by the Association of the U.S. Army. http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/0408/web-mann-04-11-02.asp Users slam Microsoft Security Analyser Just a GUI version of HfNetChk, say disgruntled punters. Microsoft released the Baseline Security Analyser (MBSA), a free tool which analyses Windows systems for common security misconfigurations, earlier this week. But users have already slammed it as just a GUI version of the software giant's HfNetChk. http://www.vnunet.com/News/1130844 Win-XP Search Assistant silently downloads files Just over a week ago, while searching for a file on a Windows-XP machine, I was surprised to see the Search Assistant attempting to activate my Internet connection. It puzzled me because I wasn't searching the Internet, only my local drive. I was busy with other things at the time, but I made a mental note to look into it soon, which I promptly forgot to do. This morning, Reg reader Jody Melbourne rattled my cage, fresh from having made the same discovery. He'd noticed that the Assistant was establishing a connection with a machine at Microsoft. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24815.html This Ex-Hacker's Fat Is in the Fire The escapades of larger-than-life German Netrepreneur Kim Schmitz made him a cult figure. Now they've landed him in jail. Eight months before the indictment, Kim Schmitz saw it coming. As German authorities closed in on the one-time hacker and Internet entrepreneur, he threw one last blow-out party in May, 2001 -- immortalizing the revelry with digital photos posted on his Web site. Schmitz and entourage headed off to Monaco from Munich in a fleet of rented sports cars, booked a pair of huge yachts, and invited a bevy of attractive women in bikinis to join them. The champagne alone cost $40,000, Schmitz boasted on his Web site. http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/apr2002/nf20020411_3688.htm National Academies Study Tempers Call For National ID Efforts to establish a national identification system could backfire unless policymakers address an exhaustive array of privacy, security and logistical concerns, the nation's top research and development institutions warned today. The recommendations were offered in a report endorsed by the National Research Council's Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, which is staffed by an array of private sector entities and academic institutions, including Microsoft Corp., AT&T Labs, AOL Time Warner, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University, among many others. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175823.html ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> HOT! PRICE BREAKTHROUGH! 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